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Versión en español aquí.Esther Vargas is a force of nature. She is social media manager for a news agency of the Peruvian government, she teaches at the Catholic University of Peru and she is a tireless promoter of education for journalists through her website, Clases de Periodismo. The home page of Clases de Periodismo She and […]
Read More »Versión en español aquí.I may have misled people for the last few years by saying that investigative journalism is not a business but a public service.Other people — namely Felix Salmon, Jeff Bezos and four journalists cited by Journalism.co.uk — are reminding me that investigative journalism does, in fact, have commercial value.First, Felix Salmon, the […]
Read More »Versión en español aquí. A master’s degree in English literature might not seem an ideal preparation for a career as a business journalist. Actually it served me well, for all the reasons given by advocates of a liberal arts education. But my own experience seems to have little to do with what the journalism job […]
Read More »Versión en español aquí. If you want to study journalism, you have more choices today, at lower cost, and of higher quality than ever. Sometimes you will get that at a university and sometimes not. That represents a challenge for universities. In a lecture at a journalism conference in Puebla, Mexico, I described a personal […]
Read More »Versión en español aquí. Amazon’s Jeff Bezos isn’t the only e-commerce billionaire making news with acquisitions. Jack Ma, chairman of China’s e-commerce leader, Alibaba, has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in a Twitter-like microblogging service and a mapping service. Both of these giants have been bolting on companies that can help them gain synergies […]
Read More »Versión en español aquí.Journalism is the best job in the world, and working with journalists is fun. They’re funny, irreverent, intelligent and excellent storytellers. Still, as a group we tend to be arrogant, self-righteous and holier-than-thou (I include myself in this criticism). We tend to view ourselves as high priests of an exclusive profession and […]
Read More »Tenth in a series on teaching entrepreneurial journalism. Parts of this post are adapted from an article originally published in Revista Mexicana de Comunicación. Latin American journalists have a great thirst for establishing independent media. Many of them are tired of working for low pay at media outlets that protect the friends and punish the […]
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